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For the third time this year, economists revised their revenue forecast upward, leaving it just $27 million shy of the kicker threshold. That means even a small improvement over expected employment and wages could send at least $290 million in rebates to individual taxpayers.
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Steady economic improvements have led the state to collect slightly more than projected in both corporate and personal income taxes. Much of the increased revenue came from last year's special legislature session, when lawmakers voted to raise taxes on corporations and wealthy individuals. Because the action came after lawmakers adjourned the regular session, the additional revenue they created counts toward the 2 percent kicker threshold.
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Leptomeningeal melanoma refers to the spread of melanoma cells to the tissue that lines the outside of the brain and spinal cord. It generally occurs in the setting of melanoma that has spread to other parts of the body as well. However, there are reported cases of melanoma cells appearing in this location as the first and only site of metastatic spread.
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Originally Posted by Cheap Scotch Ron
Divorce is not the answer. Do that, and she gets half of everything. That guarantees you will NOT be able to retire. A large insurance policy and a trip to Aruba with Joran Van De Sloot should do the trick.
Not if you are able to convince the judge that she has commited Adultery....
She get's zilch.
Nothing that a bit of liquor and a random and a camera/video camers cannot fix.
Here in the liberal swamps of jersey, her attorney would convince the judge that you drove her to adultery by spending all your time online and the judge would give her everything you own.
You might as well drink that bottle of booze yourself.
In God We Trust....Everything else we backup.
I installed Slackware 12.2 the other day after having a self imposed hiatus from Linux for a couple of years. I was surprised that everything just worked out of the box including my bluetooth keyboard and mouse.
Only minor headaches I struck were getting my second LCD monitor to work but after a bit of googling and messing with the xorg.conf file all was good. Also, the sound wasn't playing well with the other children in the box but after a bit of investigation I found it was my fault as I failed to disable the onboard sound in my BIOS, once done everything works fine.
I am very impressed, even my USB NTFS drives are all automatically recognised and I can read and write to them, something I remember giving me grief a few years ago.
In my travels I found this little tutorial called The Perfect Desktop - Slackware 12 here at http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...op_slackware12, its a little dated and obviously refers to earlier released of Slack 12, but very informative.
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Good to know all that. Any networking issues?
KPryor - no networking issues at all, I use this as a desktop machine behind an IPCop firewall so it is a default setup and networking worked out of the box.
File sharing with samba was a breeze to setup following a simple tutorial here: http://www.foogazi.com/2006/11/01/si...ackware-setup/
Now all my network shared folders can be accessed by my wireless media player and other computers on the network.
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In my travels I found this little tutorial called The Perfect Desktop - Slackware 12 here at http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...op_slackware12, its a little dated and obviously refers to earlier released of Slack 12, but very informative.
That is one really good link.
greens are in the mail my friend.
I finally got around to installing Slackware 12.2 on my old Pentium II. Hope you don't mind a really long post, but this is my recap of how things went during the install.
First,here's a description of the test system:
Slackware test system
Gateway G6-266 (with other parts thrown in)
Pentium II 266
192 mb SDRam
Maxtor D740X-6L 80 GB HD
CD-Rom drive
DVD-RW drive
Soundblaster Live! CT4760
ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP 2x
Trendnet TE100 10/100 pci card
D-Link AirPlus G DWL-G510
I downloaded the DVD version of the install, mainly because I didn't want to screw with 3 or 4 cd's. The download didn't take too long, although I don't remember just how long or from which mirror I got it from.
I had to get the machine back in working order, as it has been sitting mostly stripped of parts lately and gathering dust. I had pulled a hard drive from another system that just bit the dust, so I had that available, as were several of the other parts I needed, like the DVD drive.
After putting it all together, it was go time. I burned the dvd on my main desktop and fired up the ol' PII. The familiar Slackware install disk items scrolled by after I hit enter at the boot: prompt. I had to hit enter again to select the keyboard map and finally it arrived at the login prompt.
I logged in as root (of course) and then deleted the existing partitions on the hard drive using cfdisk. After that, I created a new primary partition for approximately 79,500 gb and the other 500 for a swap partition. To be honest, I never really know how big a swap file needs to be, but I figured that should cover it.
After finishing that, it was time to enter setup. Ah yes, the lovely bare bones setup menu was a welcome sight. I hadn't done a Slackware install since a brief affair I had with version 11. I went through the menus and selected to install pretty much everything except the international stuff.
I had setup format the primary partition and activate the swap. No problems there, no bad blocks found. This drive is fairly old, so I wouldn't have been surprised to find some bad sectors. Anyway, once all that was out of the way it was time to get the real setup rolling. After getting through the various menus it was installing.
I was doing other things while the install was going, but every so often I'd check in on the progress. I realized after awhile it had been stopped on the same package for a very long time. I let it go a little longer and found it was still stuck there. I didn't see any hard drive light flickers, so I decided it locked up for some reason. I did a hard reboot and started over.
When it got back to that package again it took a very long time but did eventually go on past it and continue on. However, then I started seeing various errors and stalls on other packages. I shut it down and took a look at the dvd. I was unhappy to find a huge scratch on it I hadn't previously noticed, so no wonder the setup kept messing up. Unfortunately, I had already gotten rid of the ISO, so I had to download it again and burn a new dvd.
Ok, so here we go again. Went through setup, etc and all went wonderfully well this time. No hiccups whatsoever, thank goodness. I popped out the dvd, rebooted and when it came to the point I expected to see Lilo show up I see a Grub error 22. Grub????? What the???
Turns out that, even though I told setup to install Lilo to the MBR, Grub was still there from the previous os I had used in the now dead machine the drive came from. Now I was aggravated and commenced with a little overkill to make sure things worked right next time. By overkill I mean I used this command:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
Yep, I zeroed out the whole disk, mainly because I was aggravated. Hey, at least I didn't kick the crap out of it.
Ok, after waiting a for the zero job to finish I started over from scratch. I did all the prep work in cfdisk as before and breezed through setup. Once it completed and told me to reboot, it was time to say a little prayer. I popped out the dvd, rebooted and BINGO! It worked. Probably a good thing for the machine and my foot, as I fear I might have kicked it hard had things gone badly again.
All the things I remembered seeing in old Slackware boot processes flowed by on the screen as they were supposed to. Once at the login prompt, I once again logged in as root and started playing around. I ran ifconfig and found it had already obtained an IP address from my router, something I never could get version 11 to do by itself without doing some fiddling in configuration files or manually running dhcpcd every time.
I was very pleased with how zippy the machine seemed to be, given the lower than low end specs. From the system "beep" to the login prompt was 1 min, 25 sec, but keep in mind I have it running practically every service whether I need it or not for testing purposes. I plan to go back and turn most of those off, so I have no doubt it will "fly" during boot up after that.
I reviewed the mail messages that always come with Slackware using the command line Nail program. Next, I uncommented one mirror in the Slackpkg mirror list, updated Slackpkg and then used Slackpkg upgrade-all. There were about 10 packages or thereabouts that had upgrades, so I let it do its thing. I really like Slackpkg and highly recommend it for keeping the system up to date.
I had elected to install KDE as my desktop of choice. I considered going with Fluxbox, but I've always like KDE and decided to stick with it. I typed startx and KDE loaded up in about 40 seconds.
Overall, I'm extremely pleased with this new Slackware. It recognized all my hardware. All of it! Yes, even the wireless card, which I didn't really expect. I have not configured the wireless or wpa supplicant, so I haven't tried it yet, but the os does correctly identify it. All my other hardware listed above worked just as they are supposed to without exception.
I haven't really decided what I'm going to use this machine for yet, but I've got a couple of ideas. I'm looking forward to trying some different stuff with it. I'm a beginner in computer forensics and I have a guide for doing some forensics work in Linux and Slackware is the os used throughout. I'm sure I'll use it for some of the tutorials, etc, but would really prefer having a computer with a little more horsepower for any big forensics projects.
So, that's it for now. Sorry to make such a long post for this. Hope I didn't bore you all to death
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda
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Glad it all installed nicely. I chuckled when you said you had to zero out the drive and started again.
I've had to start from scratch on a few *nix installs. Just makes the install more of a challenge.
Other then that even though the machine is low in spec wise, what apps are you using on it? And how does the machine handle when you have multiple things open?
I think my hardest install was on a machine I'm now using as a server:
I had Windows 98 SE on it, and then installed Mandrake 7.1 on it (This wasyears ago obviously) and then I had extra drive space left, so I made a new partition for FreeBSD 4.0.
3 OSs on one disk, and once BSD was installed Windows wouldn't boot anymore. Whole thing had crapped out.
By the way if you don't want to type startx, you can do this:
init 4
That loads up the KDM display.
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By the way if you don't want to type startx, you can do this:
init 4
That loads up the KDM display.
Didn't know that, thanks! I haven't really had time to install any other apps yet or do any other testing. Hope to get some time after work tonight to play with it some more. KP
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ICYMI: The $6,400 Myth
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Breaking down a false Obama Medicare claim.
August 20, 2012
One of President Obama's regular attacks on Paul Ryan's Medicare reform is that it would force seniors to pay $6,400 a year more for health care. But merely because he keeps repeating this doesn't mean it's in the same area code of accurate.
The claim is based on a now out-of-date Congressional Budget Office estimate of the gap between the cost of health care a decade from now, in 2022, and the size of the House budget's premium-support subsidy for a typical 65-year-old in 2022.
In other words, the $6,400 has no relevance for any senior today. None. But it also is unlikely to have any relevance for any senior ever because CBO concedes that its number is highly uncertain and "will depend on the evolution of the health care and health insurance systems over time, which is hard to predict." That's for sure.
The more fundamental problem is that the CBO analysis has nothing to do with the current Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan plan. Nada. Over the last year Mr. Ryan has made major adjustments to his original proposal as he sought a compromise with Democrats. In its most up-to-date analysis, CBO admits that it "does not have the capability at this time to estimate such effects" in the new version. That is, it does not have the tools to make its $6,400 exaggeration again.
The reason CBO can't model the 2013 House budget and the Romney-Ryan plan is that they harness markets with competitive bidding. Congress's budget gnomes can't handle these dynamic forces.
So how would Ryan 2.0 work in practice? Traditional Medicare and all private insurers in a region would make bids to cover seniors and compete for their business by offering the best value and prices. Then the government would give everyone a subsidy equal to the second-lowest bid.
If seniors chose that No. 2 option, whether it was Medicare or another plan, they'd break even and pay nothing extra out of pocket. If they picked the cheapest plan, they'd keep whatever was left over after the government subsidy—that is, they'd get a cash refund. If they instead picked the third-cheapest option, the fourth-cheapest, etc., they'd pay the difference above the government subsidy.
That structure ensures that seniors would have at least two choices (and likely far more) that they are guaranteed to do better than they do now. The amount of the premium-support subsidy would also be tied to underlying health-care costs, so it would not shift costs to beneficiaries, as Democrats also falsely claim. The very reasonable Romney-Ryan policy bet is that costs could nonetheless fall over time because seniors would have the incentive to switch to the most competitively priced Medicare plan.
The latest real-world reason to expect that would happen comes from a new paper by the Harvard economists Zirui Song, David Cutler and Michael Chernew. The researchers—Mr. Cutler used to be an Obama health adviser—looked at Medicare Advantage, the program that currently gives one of four seniors private alternatives (and that ObamaCare deliberately undermines).
The Advantage insurers make bids today against a benchmark set by traditional Medicare spending, and the Harvard trio find that the second lowest bid in 2009 came in 9% below the normal program on average. Medicare costs $717 per person per month, but the cheapest private plan could provide the same coverage for 87 cents on the government dollar. The second cheapest could do it for 91 cents.
Messrs. Song, Cutler and Chernew are alarmed because they say their results imply—broadly speaking—that seniors in traditional Medicare would have to pay $64 a month more if they kept that coverage. (Note: That totals $768 a year, not $6,400.) But a better way of reading the data is that seniors would migrate to more cost-effective options, saving both themselves and taxpayers a bundle.
None of these facts are likely to deter Democrats from their distorted claims. But the truth is that the Ryan-Romney reform isn't anywhere close to Mr. Obama's cartoon version.


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Loveland Boys & Girls Club junior staffer Erick Flores, 14, left, works on a computer Wednesday afternoon in the club's computer lab. Erick has been going to the Boys & Girls Club for about three years and said he enjoys being a junior staffer. "You get to have fun and get paid," he said.
Dry grasses and cattails surround a pond at the Morey Wildlife Reserve in Loveland on Tuesday. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Diana Greer, a past precinct captain, discusses procedure with another voter in precinct 528 Tuesday night at Loveland High School during the Democratic Caucuses.
Douglas Luithly discusses the process of voting and recording information with another attendee at the precinct 527 table Tuesday night during Democratic Caucuses at Loveland High School.
Michael Fajardo Jr., right, plays with toy cars while his father, Michael, left, listens to Democratic candidates speak to caucus-goers Tuesday night at Loveland High School. Fajardo was the sole voter present at the precinct 503 table until well after the event had begun.
Lisa Wheeler waits hopefully for other voters in her precinct to arrive at Loveland High School during opening remarks Tuesday night while Colorado Democrats held caucuses. Little national or state business on the agenda may have influenced voter turnout.
Jordan Dailey-Hawk, 11, right, looks on while Frankie Aleman shoots a jump shot while they were playing basketball together Tuesday afternoon at Dwayne Webster Memorial Park.
Jessica Lombardo, front, carries an old window out of a house Monday as Stormy Wood, back pushes a wheel barrow while they and a crew work to deconstruct the house at 1725 north Garfield Avenue in Loveland. The deconstruction is a National Association for Craftsmanship project which has twin goals of workforce training and environmental sustainability. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Dead fish line the eastern shore of Lake Waterdoll, located near the Seven Lakes subdivision off North Boyd Lake Avenue, Monday afternoon. A Colorado Division of Wildlife officer said the fish were likely trapped beneath ice covering the lake, died due to oxygen deprivation and then floated to the water's surface after the ice melted. Winds over the weekend and Monday pushed the fish to shore. (Photo by Madeline Novey)
Berthoud High sophomore James Wood works to quickly repair the robot of team Critical Mass Saturday just prior to the last semi-final match of the day during the VEX Robotics Championships at Thompson Valley High.
Berthoud High sophomore James Wood, left, directs the next moves of sophomore robot driver Kaleb Stennis, right, during the VEX Robotic Championships Saturday at Thompson Valley High.
Berthoud High students and brothers Bryan, left, and Brandon Montero, right, work together to coordinate the actions of their respective team robots while battling a common foe Saturday at Thompson Valley High during the semi-final round of the VEX Robotic Championships.
Berthoud High sophomore Trevor Von Seggern, left, drives team Digital Storm's robot while senior Jon Neuhalfen, right, assists with strategy decisions Saturday at Thompson Valley High during the semi-final round of the VEX Robotic Championships.
Jeff Basinger, director of the Northern Colorado Aids Project, displayes a needle bleaching kit and safe disposal container for intraveneous drug users - one of many ways the nonprofit tries to prevent the spread of HIV and Hepatitus C. The agency also provides access to rehabilitation and counseling.
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Thompson School District art teachers Robyn Hall, left, and Lora Patrick are reflected in framed artwork as the hang student pieces Friday for the upcoming annual art show at Aims Community College in downtown Loveland. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Students from Loveland High School look at Jupiter, above, after they had viewed Venus on Wednesday at the Little Thompson Observatory. Photo by Jeff Stahla
Troy Peterson, center, developer of the Rialto Theater Center, his son Henry Peterson, 4, and Joseph Palieri II, a broker with Realtec Commercial Real Estate Services, look out the window of the third floor of the Rialto Theater Center Thursday in downtown Loveland. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Stansberry Elementary School fourth-grader Quentin Eisele, 9, left, smiles as his mentor Ron Heusinkveld, right, proclaims himself as the loser after Quentin beat him during a dice game Tuesday at the school in Loveland. Heusinkveld is a volunteer from Immanuel Lutheran Church who mentors Quentin once a week during lunch time at school. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Not sure about the green eggs, Trinity Lutheran Preschool student Sophia Reynolds, 5, looks up at her mom before tasting them Thursday at The Egg & I restaurant in Loveland. Her mom Susan Reynolds said Sophia might think they come from green chickens since she once told her that chocolate milk comes from chocolate cows. Students from the preschool were served green eggs and ham to celebrate Read Across America day, an annual literacy event sponsored by the National Education Association, which coincides with the birthday of famous children's author Ted Geisel or Dr. Seuss. Loveland Police Sgt. Dave Murphy also read "Green Eggs and Ham" and "The Cat in the Hat" to the children. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Mountain View High School senior Aaron Chesler practices the speech Thursday that he will give at a mock senate at the National Forensics competition in June. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Randall Knapper rides his bike on the Recreation Trail near Boise Avenue in Loveland on Tuesday. The 87 year-old rides his bike about 4,000 miles a year. Photo by Jenny Sparks
The speedometer on Randall Knapper's bike shows the more than 4,000 miles he has ridden since April of last year when he got the bike. Photo by Jenny Sparks
An eagle perches in a tree Wednesday afternoon south of 29th Street just east of Madison Avenue in Loveland. Photo by Jenny Sparks
An eagle eyes a seagul Wednesday afternoon in the sky south of 29th Street on Madison Avenue in Loveland. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Aubrey Woodard, 9, acts siilly as she watches herself on a monitor Tuesday before delivering the local news on camera at Edmondson Elementary School in Loveland. The school received a creativity grant for 4th and 5th graders to put together a news cast for the school, called Stallion Scoop. Some students watch as others take video and pictures of her with iPods. Photo by Jenny Sparks
Edmondson Elementary School student Jacob Lucio, 10, uses an iPod to gather sports news for a news cast Tuesday during school. Photo by Jenny Sparks


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Sophomore midfielder Jacqui Simon scored two goals, the second of which snapped a 1-1 tie early in the second half, as the 23rd-ranked UCSB women's soccer team opened Big West Conference play with a 2-1 win at UC Riverside on Friday.
The Highlanders took a 1-0 lead in the match in the 26th-minute when Tessa Lennala scored her fifth goal of the season. She took a slot pass from Candis Novis and left-footed it into the left side of the goal.
Less than eight minutes after Lennala had given her team the 1-0 edge, Simon scored her first goal of the game. Freshman midfielder Cory Yoshida found junior forward Genelle Ives open on the right side of the box. Ives found Simon in the middle of the box and Simon found the back of the net. It was her second two-goal performance of the season as she also tallied a pair at Pepperdine on Aug. 31.
In the win, the Gauchos (8-4-0 overall, 1-0-0 in the Big West) outshot UCR (5-6-1 overall, 0-1-0 in the Big West) by a 14-15 margin, but the shot on goal difference was far more decisive at 17-8. Simon led both teams with six shots, all on-goal. Highlander goalkeeper Brittany Goetz had 10 saves to keep her team in the game. Freshman Ali Cutler, starting her third straight match in place of injured Tammy Lenham, had a season-high six saves.
UCSB remains on the road as it travels to defending Big West Tournament champion Cal State Fullerton.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has designated 4,400 acres of Zumwalt Prairie Preserve as a National Natural Landmark.
Why You Should Visit
Oregon's largest privately owned nature sanctuary lies within the Zumwalt Prairie, North America's largest remaining grassland of its type.
Studying the prairie's ecosystem for nearly 20 years led The Nature Conservancy to protect this great place — because of its size, intact bunch grass habitats and incredible concentrations of wildlife. Your support is vital to maintaining and restoring this landscape essential to Oregon's culture, heritage and economy.
In Wallowa County, in northeast Oregon (near Enterprise and Joseph)
33,000 acres (51 square miles)
What the Conservancy Has Done/Is Doing
In 2000, The Nature Conservancy purchased 27,000 acres of the Zumwalt Prairie, the largest Oregon acquisition in the organization's history. In 2006, we added 6,065 acres, making the 51-square-mile preserve Oregon's biggest private nature sanctuary.
The Nature Conservancy's Zumwalt Prairie Preserve is managed to support and advance conservation across the larger Zumwalt Prairie, while also providing high quality and diverse habitat for native species on the Preserve. The Conservancy aspires to achieve and sustain conservation values in the context of sustainable livestock grazing as the predominant economic land use across this privately-owned landscape. Further, the Conservancy donates bull elk and buck deer LOP tags to local service organization raffles each year. To date, the tags have raised nearly $300,000 for Wallowa County charities.
Conservancy scientists, University researchers and volunteer teams engage in ongoing surveying, monitoring and studying the area's animals and plant communities. Managed livestock grazing, prescribed fire and protection of vulnerable aspen and shrub communities from over-browsing are used to improve plant health and diversity on the preserve.
The Conservancy works with ranchers across the Zumwalt landscape to maintain the ecological health of the prairie and the economic viability of working ranches. The struggle to suppress damaging invasive plants in Wallowa County — such as sulfur cinquefoil, meadow hawkweed and common bugloss — has also brought diverse interests together. Through invasive species mapping, monitoring and removal, the Conservancy and its partners are working to maintain and improve habitat for the prairie's iconic species, including Columbian sharp-tailed grouse, Spalding's catchfly and quaking aspen.
In addition, Conservancy ecologists and volunteers are working to restore riparian areas for fish and birds. Strategies include protecting sensitive areas from overgrazing, planting native vegetation along stream banks, improving stream channel form and function, removing stream blockages and monitoring fish populations.
Watch a video from OPB's Oregon Field Guide to learn more about Zumwalt Prairie restoration and research projects, and visit Conservation Gateway.
What to See: Plants
This diverse preserve hosts nearly a dozen native bunch grasses and over 100 wildflower species. Early in the season, hoary balsamroot, camas and silky lupine put on a spectacular display. Later, goldenrod, pleated gentian, Gardner's yampah and other species continue to provide color and food for pollinating insects. The preserve is also home to one of the largest populations of the threatened Spalding's catchfly which blooms in mid- to late-July.
What to See: Animals
Abundant ground squirrels and other prey support one of the highest known concentrations of breeding raptors in North America. Ferruginous and Swainson's hawks, on the decline throughout the West, thrive here, along with golden eagles and prairie falcons. The prairie is also home to several ground-nesting songbirds including Savannah, vesper, grasshopper and Brewer's sparrows. During the fall and winter, rough-legged hawks can be spotted after migrating south from arctic breeding grounds.
Large mammals found on the prairie include elk, mule deer, black bear and cougar. The preserve is also a great place to see coyote, short-tailed weasel and badger. Butterflies and snakes (including rattlesnakes) are other animals visitors may observe, and Snake River steelhead, federally listed as a threatened species, spawn in seven miles of the preserve's 51 miles of intermittent and perennial streams, as do inland redband trout.
Preserve access is day use and by foot only.
Please observe the following guidelines while hiking:
- Stay on the trail. Don't collect plants, insects or other species or disturb soil, rocks, artifacts or scientific research markers.
- No dogs. Preserves harbor ground-nesting birds and other wildlife that are extremely sensitive to disturbance.
- No bicycles or motorized vehicles. Native plants and research sites are easily trampled.
- No hunting, camping or campfires.
- Please leave all gates as you find them.
- Please bring a bag and carry out any trash you find.
- Please report to us any problems you observe (e.g., camping, plant removal, hunting, off-road vehicle damage, etc).
If you have questions, comments or want to volunteer at the preserve, please contact Zumwalt Prairie staff at (541) 426-3458. Enjoy your visit!
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If you're the proud owner of a Sony Xperia P, we're happy to inform you that Sony has just released the Android 4.0 update for your device. In a perfect world, Sony would have launched the phone with Ice Cream Sandwich, but we're not here to judge.
Most users will get an update notification on their device once the Android 4.0 update for their Sony Xperia P is available in their region, but in some cases users will need to use Sony's PC Companion or Bridge for Mac to download and install the firmware update.
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Good for Path – In response to the address book issue from yesterday that sent the tech press into a romper room hissy fit (no offense, hissy fits are fun sometimes), they've decided to take the very simple and most effective remedy: nuking all the data.
Path's blog post on the decision is here.
This is exactly what I recommended yesterday, although Path had come to the same conclusion independently. I had reached out to CEO Dave Morin before I posted last night but didn't reach him. But we spoke very early this morning and he told me that they had already begun deleting all the data, well before I wrote my post, and would announce it later today.
As my partner MG Siegler says, there was absolutely nothing nefarious about this, but it shouldn't have happened regardless.
I'm extremely proud of the way the company handled itself yesterday and today, and I'm more proud than ever to be an investor. Companies (people) screw up all the time. It's how they handle themselves in a crisis that shows what they're really made of.


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One of our astute readers here at Asphalt & Rubber pointed out in the comments section that hidden in the accessory photos on Triumph's website, was a single shot that exposed the rear-wheel ABS pick-up on the 2011 Triumph Speed Triple. It's no secret now that anti-lock braking systems are all the rage for street bikes, so it seems logical that Triumph would follow suit.
Now the real question remains whether the British brand will also field a traction control package, since TC systems often use these kind of sensors as well. Time will tell. Good eye Krylov!


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A Frozen jewel for Pittsburgh
Frozen Four another sign of hockey stronghold in Steel City
PITTSBURGH -- The Robert Morris logo will be unmistakable on the Consol Energy Center ice this weekend, a red, white and blue reminder to the thousands college hockey fans expected to descend on Pittsburgh for the NCAA's Frozen Four that the Steel City's love of the game goes far beyond Mario Lemieux and Sidney Crosby.
It will be a milestone of sorts for a program that didn't even exist a decade ago.
It will also be highly visible evidence of hockey's strengthening foothold in western Pennsylvania, one that could one day soon rival the hotbeds in places like Detroit, Minnesota and New England.
From a burgeoning youth scene - try finding a rink within an hour's drive of downtown that isn't packed on a given night - to an ever-expanding crop of proven young talent dotting college and professional rosters to a Division I program that nearly made its first NCAA tournament this spring, the fastest game on ice is sizzling in a place where football has long been king.
"It's becoming the eye of the storm," said former NHL defenseman Dave Hanson, who has watched the sport's growth in the area since taking over as executive director of the Island Sports Center in 1998, one of the many ice hockey facilities that have sprouted up over the last 20 years.
No offense to Frozen Four finalists Quinnipiac, Yale, St. Cloud State or UMass Lowell, organizers hope in some way the true star of college hockey's crown jewel may be the city the game nearly abandoned.
For all of Lemieux's magnificence, hockey was dying in 2003. The Penguins were bankrupt, struggling and threatening to move if a replacement for decaying Mellon Arena could not be found. The NHL lockout soon followed in 2004, and the interest in hockey that flourished during Lemieux's prime began to dwindle.
"It went from a sprinter's pace to a snail's pace," Hanson said.
Yet Robert Morris pressed on with its plan to bring college hockey's highest level to the area. Coach Derek Schooley crisscrossed the continent to sell talented high schoolers on a vision of starting something he insisted would be competitive sooner rather than later.
It wasn't always easy. Crowds at the Island Sports Center for Colonials home games during those first few years were a modest gathering of family and friends. The lack of local talent was obvious. Things improved, but not quickly.
Then Sidney Crosby came along. And Evgeni Malkin. They were teens when they were selected by the Penguins in the NHL draft. And they became teammates who made the Penguins relevant again and fanned a spark that has turned into a region-wide blaze.
Crosby's No. 87 jersey may be as popular as any member of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Malkin's No. 71 is not far behind. Yet their success did more than generate new fans and rescue a franchise that has sold out every game for the last six years. Crosby and Malkin's arrival created new players too.
"They made it cool," Schooley said. "Everybody wants to play now."
The future of the NHL in Pittsburgh is finally secure, Lemieux - now a co-owner - didn't just sit idly by. Over the last eight years, the team has done what it can to nurture the game. Through corporate sponsorship or donations through the club's foundation, the Penguins have made hockey more affordable so that kids interested in playing can focus on development and their parents can stop worrying about how to pay the bills.
"They're concerned about the youth hockey, concerned about the high school hockey and college hockey," Schooley said. "Hockey is growing by leaps and bounds, a lot of that effort comes from the Pens."
Two decades ago, there were a handful of youth teams in the Pittsburgh area. Now there are dozens. Hanson estimates there are 400 players in the Island Sports Center's in-house program, numbers that are echoed in places like the Iceoplex at Southpointe, where the Penguins occasionally practice. That doesn't include the rapidly increasing number of elite teams, the ones that are producing high-level players at a remarkable rate.
The sport's initial bloom during Lemieux's career paved the way for the likes of Columbus Blue Jackets forward R.J. Umberger - a Pittsburgh native who played collegiately at Ohio State - and Ryan Malone of the Tampa Bay Lightning.
They have given way to the likes of John Gibson, J.T. Miller, Vincent Trocheck and Riley Barber. All four players are from the Pittsburgh area and helped USA Hockey to the gold medal in the World Junior Championships in January.
"You're always going to have the cream rise to the top, you just have more of it," Hanson said.
Penguins defenseman Brooks Orpik - the longest-tenured player on the team - called the glut of talent being groomed in western Pennsylvania jarring. The Boston College alum spent much of the offseason lockout skating with the current group of Eagles, a roster that included three players from Pittsburgh. Boston College won the national championship last season.
"When I was coming up, you had guys like Umberger and Malone," Orpik said. "Now it seems like every year there's three or four guys from around here going in the draft or playing really high level collegiately."
With Crosby signed for the next dozen years, it's still too early to tell whether the interest in the game will march in lockstep with the success of the Penguins. Yet Umberger sees the success of Robert Morris - which won 20 games for the first time this season - and Penn State's recent move to Division I as proof the passion for hockey isn't limited to the guys wearing black and gold.
"Robert Morris has done a great job. Penn State's going to add a lot now," Umberger said. "When you have players in the past couple of decades like Mario and (Jaromir) Jagr, Crosby and Malkin, it's hard for people there not to fall in love with hockey."
The arrival of the Frozen Four - coming just two years after Pittsburgh hosted 68,000 fans at Heinz Field for the NHL's Winter Classic - transcends simple interest in the superstar wattage provided by the Penguins.
More than 13,000 out-of-town visitors are expected to cram Consol Energy Center while the Stanley Cup favorites spend the weekend in Florida. Tournament organizers hope the newcomers see more than a national champion crowned. They hope they see a city embracing the sport at all levels.
"It just continues to grow," Hanson said. "Pittsburgh is really starting to make its mark and this is a great chance to showcase that."


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What is the Ohio Supercomputer Center Summer Institute?
SI is a two-week residential program that gives gifted high school students entering their sophomore, junior or senior year project-based, hands-on learning. Working in small peer teams, the students use supercomputers for practical applications such as solving complex science and engineering problems, conducting network forensics to catch hackers, studying the spread of the bird flu and designing computer games.
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High school students entering their sophomore, junior or senior year.
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- Develop friendships with other students who have similar interests
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Dates: June 16-28, 2019
Location: Ohio Supercomputer Center, 1224 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio
Application: Applications will be accepted online beginning January 1, 2019. The deadline for SI 2019 applications is April 5, 2019. We will begin notifying accepted students approximately early May, 2019.
Cost: Those chosen for the program will be awarded partial scholarships. The scholarships lower the price to $1,100 for each attendee. The fee covers housing, meals and program tuition, including laboartory visits, insurance, chaperones, social activities, equipment costs and much more.
Past Projects: The cornerstone of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Summer Institute is the projects. The students work together in small teams on diverse and challenging research-level projects. Teams are comprised of a project leader (staff member who conceived and designed the project) and three or four students.
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Philosophy Club
The Murray State Philosophy Club seeks to encourage philosophical discussion between students and professors. Dinners, coffee-shop gatherings, movie nights, and other get-togethers are planned for each semester to give students the chance to get to know one another and discuss philosophical issues that are important to them. At times students or professors will present their own work at a meeting, and at other times topics are chosen less formally. In past years, the Philosophy Club has organized a trip to conferences so that members can interact with students at other universities, present papers they've written, and listen to talks given by other philosophers.
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Hear a concert live Fridays at 12noon ET from WXPN and NPR Music
Broadcast live from the stage at World Cafe Live
The Cold War Kids is sold out
Listen to the Concert Live, Friday on the Radio and Online at XPN.org/listen.
Long Beach, California's Cold War Kids are on tour in support of their new album, Mine Is Yours, and they play the Trocadero this Friday night. Listen live at 12noon Friday, March 25, 20011!
Citing a diverse collection of influences--from Bob Dylan to Billie Holiday to the Velvet Underground--California's Cold War Kids have an all-encompassing sound. Embracing old-school blues and backwoods country rock, their style still holds a solid yet unique indie-rock label. Don't miss this Friday's performance at noon--fresh off a new release and on tour, the foursome is ready to start the weekend off right.
The outfit, oft described as "skinny-jeaned Christian rockers, was formed in 2004 and is comprised of Nathan Willett (lead vocals, piano, guitar), Matt Maust (bass), Jonnie Russell (guitar, vocals, percussion) and Matt Aveiro (drums). After recording some demos in the Los Angeles area, Cold War Kids released a number of buzz-building EPs before their official studio LP, the critically acclaimed "Robbers and Cowards". With Willet's Jeff Buckley-ish, wailing vocals, the constantly vibrant lyrics, and a bluesy yet rocking style, Cold War Kids have quickly built a reputation for innovation among fans and critics alike. Their sophomore effort, "Loyalty to Loyalty", was slower and more introspective compared to preview releases, but no less dynamic.
And now the band has just hit the spotlight with "Mine is Yours", an 11-track collection of what could be their most mainstream release yet--and that's not necessarily a bad thing. They've added "a slice of pop" to their soul-punk mix, as Drowned in Sound put it. "Mine is Yours" has thus far charted in the US, UK, and Australia as a result. Released January 2011, this third LP of Cold War Kids is energetic and efficient, just like their performances on stage.
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Recent Release: Mine Is Yours
Release Date: January 25, 2011
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Cooperation and acquisitions continue in the seed and crop protection business. Syngenta and DuPont just signed a corn rootworm trait licensing agreement. And Novozymes purchased the Crop BioScience business from Merck KGaA. These two events are part of a growing business model that involves competitors cooperating.
Syngenta has agreed to license its Agrisure corn rootworm trait to DuPont's Pioneer Hi-Bred. This deal could be worth over $400 million in cumulative payments, according to a news release from both companies.
The license is a non-exclusive, global license for the trait that provides protection from underground pests like corn rootworm. Pioneer also has the right to stack the Agrisure trait with others. Pioneer reported in the news release that it will use the trait in its Optimum AcreMax family of products.
Novozymes-EMD Crop BioScience
Novozymes just announced it will purchase Merck's Crop BioScience business including EMD Crop BioScience for $275 million. This purchase is designed to strengthen Novozymes position in the growing biological market for agriculture, according to a Merck news release.
Meanwhile, Merck's Bernd Reckmann reports, "The Crop BioScience business is focused on a specific segment within the agricultural industry and has very limited overlap with other parts of Merck's business."


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Large hospital lighting partner
T-Hospital is Fagerhult Finland's biggest project ever. Over a ten year period Fagerhult delivered almost 20 000 luminaires, a third of which were from the popular downlight series, Pleiad.
When this 108 000 square meter hospital was newly constructed, nearly ten years ago, a reliable supplier was needed with a wide range of recessed products as well as experience in hospital lighting.
Fagerhult in Finland had a good history of cooperation with the electrical consultant. This cooperation brought about a mutual understanding in what was needed in the building process which resulted in Fagerhult being appointed as the main lighting supplier over three phases between 2003 and 2013.
The T-hospital is now home to about 1600 employees working in emergency services for basic health care and specialist medical care in the Turku area.
This hospital has a wide variety of recessed luminaires. The architect created a suspended ceiling system and Fagerhult helped to integrate the lighting on the spot.
Introducing Indigo ed2 Perfo Hygiene
One of the recessed solutions in the third part was Fagerhult's Indigo ed2 Perfo Hygiene which was specially developed for the HUS Kolmiosairaala hospital project in Finland. Since then it has been used in T-hospital as well as other projects.
The luminaire is now part of the standard Fagerhult product range, giving a predominantly indirect light distribution for hygiene environments.
Early bird on light control
From 2000 to 2003 a large amount of wallwashers with a versatile digital light control system (DSI) were installed; a very progressive solution at the time. Fagerhult worked closely with Tridonic during the whole project. This system meant clinical staff had the ability to control their lighting requirements from their work stations as required.
Phase 1.
The first delivery period was completed in 2003 with luminaires including the recessed downlight Pleiad G1, MultiFive Gamma, Multilume Hydro and the mirror luminaire Aqua.
Phase 2.
During the phase from 2009–2010 Fagerhult delivered the downlight Pleiad G2, the recessed MultiFive, Multilume Hydro, Aqua and 122 pieces of purpose made ELG ed2 bed head units.
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The third phase was completed in 2013 and included more Pleiad G2 downlights and Indigo ed 2 Perfo Hygiene, the recessed MultiFive, the robust luminaire Multilume Hydro and the mirror luminaire Aqua. An elegant flow of light was achieved in the canteen by using pendant Avion.
Focus-projectors from Fagerhult's business partner Simes illuminate both outdoors and in the entrance hall.
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Urbanite magazine, Baltimore Business Journal, WYPR and more sing the praises of promising graduate alumni work
Posted 05.11.12 by MICA Communications
BALTIMORE - MICA establishes a two-year, $100,000 pilot awards program, LAB (Launch Artists in Baltimore), that will offer five $10,000 awards each year to new MICA graduate alumni pursuing initiatives in Baltimore. The awards support MICA's long-term commitment to help make Baltimore a cultural hub unique to the world by training scores of aggressive, world-class art and design visionaries who use the city as a canvas for their creative vision.
Announced at today's Graduate Commencement, the inaugural five LAB award-winning projects are: Print/Collect by Jennifer Coster '12 (Rinehart School of Sculpture); Wetwalks and Waterwalls by Ben Peterson '12 (Social Design); Rebuilding Connections by Chelsea Ragan '12 (Mount Royal School of Art) and Adam Void '12 (Mount Royal School of Art); Sight Unseen by Margaret Rorison '12 (Photographic & Electronic Media); and The BMore Fit Teacher Toolkit by Becky Slogeris '12 (Social Design).
"The LAB program is an exciting initiative in Baltimore aimed at ensuring that the talented young artists and designers at MICA choose to stay in the city and energize its cultural distinctiveness," said Michael Franco, vice president for advancement.
The LAB award, supported by MICA trustee Steve Boesel, is intended to assist with projects, events, studios, public art installations and small business development costs during the transitional year after graduation.
"I was motivated to make this gift for two reasons: MICA graduate students are an incredibly talented and special group of artists and designers; and secondly, the awards provide an incentive to keep those artistic talents in Baltimore, enriching the city," Boesel said. "MICA realizes now, more than ever, talent alone will not necessarily lead to career success, but talent combined with an entrepreneurial, business-oriented focus multiples those chances."
About the LAB projects:
• With Print/Collect, fine artist Jennifer Coster plans to publish a quarterly screen print collection of works by Baltimore artists. Fashioned similarly to a zine, the product will feature three artists' hand-screened prints in each rendition. Print/Collect aims to help emerging artists promote themselves through a new platform to showcase work, while offering buyers accessible and affordable artwork, and showcasing the contemporary Baltimore art scene.
• With the proposed projects, Wetwalks and Waterwalls, social designer Ben Peterson hopes he can constructively and creatively address water conservation in East Baltimore, where MICA PLACE is located. In collaboration with Blue Water Baltimore and local grade schools and after school programs, this initiative aims to use art and design to educate the public and foster stewardship around the Harris Creek Watershed system. In Waterwalls, mural paintings of water and the water system will be installed at watershed sites used for educational programing. Through Wetwalks, a map and an educational walking tour will demonstrate the system's key conservation locations by visually connecting the watershed and Waterwalls sites. Peterson, who has been working in East Baltimore during his M.A. in Social Design program, believes making the water path visible can help residents understand how our actions impact the water and how the Chesapeake Bay's health affects our own.
• Socially-conscious artists Chelsea Ragan and Adam Void propose to use the LAB award for Rebuilding Connections, a mural project along Howard Street that will connect MICA's Graduate Studio Center with the Baltimore Museum of Art. The plan proposes that six emerging MICA artists and six nationally-recognized street artists from Brooklyn's Mighty Tanaka gallery will collaboratively create six murals. The line of murals will transform formerly blank walls owned by auto shops, motels, rock clubs and townhomes into publicly accessible works of art. The project aims to aesthetically enhance a corridor going through social and economic development while connecting New York and Baltimore artists, opening the door for further artistic growth in the city.
• With a background in curating music and film events in Baltimore, Margaret Rorison has teamed up with local cinema enthusiasts Lorenzo Gattorna and Kate Ewald for her LAB project. Sight Unseen proposes to be a roaming monthly series focused on showcasing experimental film, video and live cinematic performances. This series aims to introduce alternative modes of the time-based media to a diverse range of Baltimore communities, while welcoming recognized pioneers and emerging innovators to participate in events showcasing contemporary and historical time-based art.
• Influenced by her experiences in the M.A. in Social Design program and Baltimore City Public School system, Becky Slogeris' design work focuses on holistic curriculums. She has created The BMore Fit Teacher Toolkit in partnership with BMoreFit, a local nonprofit dedicated to physical education, and Green Street Academy, a public middle-high school in West Baltimore. The BMore Fit Teacher Toolkit is a deck of exercise cards designed to help students focus in the classroom and improve their academic performance. With the LAB award, Slogeris hopes to provide teacher toolkits for Teach for America corps members in Baltimore and offer professional development training on the toolkit.
MICA has had a significant presence in Baltimore for more than 185 years with its faculty, students and alumni contributing to the quality and diversity of cultural, social and economic development of the city. During fiscal year 2010, approximately 4,700 MICA graduates (about 41 percent of all alumni) lived in Maryland, according to an economic impact study by New York City-based economic research and analysis firm Appleseed.
This academic year, MICA graduates more than 200 students from its fine art, design, education, business and community arts programs culminating in the Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master of Professional Studies or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate. MICA's growth in graduate programming is marked by today's Graduate Commencement; previously, the College celebrated undergraduate and graduate graduations in one ceremony.
LAB is the latest of MICA's investments in graduate education and the city of Baltimore. Notably, MICA opened MICA PLACE (Programs Linking Art, Culture and Education) in East Baltimore in 2010 and is currently renovating Graduate Studio Center in Station North Arts & Entertainment District.
Image caption: Example from The BMore Fit Teacher Toolkit by Becky Slogeris '12 (Social Design); photo of students in Ms. Bovill's 6th grade class at Green Street Academy pausing for 5 minutes of BMore Fit time.
Founded in 1826, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is the oldest continuously degree-granting college of art and design in the nation. The College enrolls nearly 3,500 undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies students from 49 states and 52 countries in fine arts, design, electronic media, art education, liberal arts, and professional studies degree and non-credit programs. With art and design programs ranked in the top ten by U.S. News and World Report, MICA is pioneering interdisciplinary approaches to innovation, research, and community and social engagement. Alumni and programming reach around the globe, even as MICA remains a cultural cornerstone in the Baltimore/Washington region, hosting hundreds of exhibitions and events annually by students, faculty and other established artists.
In the Media
- READ: Urbanite magazine says the program will "encourage the best and brightest to stay in Baltimore after graduation."
- READ: Baltimore Business Journal writes about the "promising projects."
Coverage also appeared in BmoreArt, WYPR Radio and the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance newsletter.


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Here's an interesting point to think about: why do some bikers think it's okay to ride uninsured? Is it possible they don't realize there are heavy fines and penalties if they are caught–including losing their bike?
Hmmm…it does makes one wonder how they missed the memo on biker safety. Research studies show that uninsured automobile drivers tend to behave more recklessly: could the same be true for bikers? In addition when two cars are involved in an accident and either of them is uninsured, guess what? It affects the lives and premium rates of everyone.
It's amazing to hear discussions offering workarounds that encourage bikers to flaunt the law. Yeah, we know the cost of living is high. But let me ask you this: have you checked the prices on funeral arrangements lately? Can you imagine being the uninsured biker in an accident? The first thought will be: "No insurance? That was stupid."
Let's not forget that bikers are already living on the fringe of legal roadrunners. Gas prices are making drivers look kindly at motorcycles, but there are still those who wouldn't miss them. There have been some nasty encounters between drivers and riders on the road. So with that said…is YOUR bike legal?


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Donald Bremmer Dies Suddenly Services Today
Donald W Bremmer,Eldora druggist, died suddenly Wednesday at 6:30pm of a heart attack in Eldora. He was 53 years old. Donald W Bremmer was born Sept 22, 1907. at Goodell. He moved to Eldora from Diagonal and entered the local drug store 17 years ago. His father, James Bremmer, passed away in Eldora Feb 6 of this year.
Survivors include four brothers and sisters, Mrs. Gladys Ward of Eldora, Mrs. Harold Eaton of Mt Carroll, Gerald L Bremmer of Traer and Mrs. Bruce Albright of Grundy center. Mr. Bremmer was single.


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Creating art in response to poetry since the 1960s, Ed Colker has "produced pure expressions, stirring symbols of inner truths or imaginings that can sometimes be inspired by or in
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July 08, 2010
The paintings of James Walton Fox find inspiration in the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish, Rumi, A.R.
April 06, 2011
This exhibition unveils treasures from the archive of Alberto de Lacerda (1928–2007), one of Portugal's most admired poets, who spent the majority of his adult life in England and
October 20, 2011
A selection of rare manuscripts, letters, fragments and recipes by revered poet Emily Dickinson from the private collection of Donald and Patricia Oresman will be on view at Poets House from Octobe
February 26, 2012
The unique collage-work, witty wordplay and educational rhymes of this award-winning children's book author have inspired and entertained countless children.
The unique collage-work, witty wordplay and educational rhymes of this award-winning children's book author have inspired and entertained countless children.
February 09, 2013
Allan Kornblum, legendary founder and publisher of both Coffee House Press and Toothpaste Press, examines the history of poetry publishing from the clay tablet to digital imprints.
July 11, 2013
Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here assembles artists' responses to the tragic March 5, 2007 bombing that resulted in the destruction of Al-Mutanabbi Street, a cultural and intellectual hub in
October 01, 2013
Poet and scholar Ammiel Alcalay, Iraqi-American poet Alise Alousi, poet and project founder Beau Beausoleil, and Middle East scholar M.
November 19, 2013
Lucille Clifton on view November 19, 2013 through March 22, 2014; Compendium of Creatures on view November 19, 2013 through April 5, 2014


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A groundbreaking study by Keith Walter, MD, shows that humidity in the treatment room can affect the outcome of LASIK surgery. Walter, now an associate professor of ophthalmology, showed that 50 percent of patients required an enhancement procedure when they had LASIK during the month of September, when outdoor humidity is highest.
His study became the basis for adjusting indoor humidity in the treatment room prior to LASIK surgery, something he did by developing a formula for equipment at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
"Our study doesn't mean that consumers should avoid LASIK surgery during the summer," Walter said. "But they should make sure that their physicians compensate for temperature and humidity."
Walter's research has been featured in national media and created a national standard. He has gone on to write articles related to LASIK surgery for numerous national publications.
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